208 MR. KIPPIST ON ACRADENIA, 
some species of Phebalium, but in that genus they are occasionally developed into subu- 
late or nearly cylindrical horns, almost as long as the carpels themselves. 
In the structure of its mature capsule, Acradenia appears to differ from most, if not 
the whole, of its more immediate allies, the endocarp remaining, when ripe, firmly united 
to the epicarp, instead of separating from it in two elastic valves, as is usually the case in 
other Diosmee. 
We have, unfortunately, no information from its discoverer with respect to the dimen- 
sions which the plant attains, but the dried specimens have all the appearance of having 
been broken off from a shrub of considerable size. They are much branched, and copiously 
furnished with opposite ternate leaves; these are remarkable for their coriaceous texture, 
and the extreme roughness and harshness of their upper surface, which is dark green, and 
covered with prominent glandular tubercles, while the under side is perfectly even, and 
(in the dried specimens) of a ferruginous brown. 
From its close resemblance in habit to Zieria, I had originally intended to employ the 
_ specific name “ zierioides”; but Mr. Brown having kindly communicated to me a speci- 
men, gathered by Mr. Milligan on the banks of the Franklin River in April 1842, on a 
ticket attached to which Mr. Milligan proposes to name the plant “ Zieria Franklinie,” 
after Lady Franklin (who, with her husband, Sir John, were, I believe, his companions on 
that journey), I have much pleasure in altering the specific name to Franklinie, in accord- 
ance with the wishes of its discoverer. On the same ticket Mr. Milligan speaks of the 
plant as handsome and fragrant; but as he at that time saw no flowers, the latter term 
can only be intended to apply to the leaves, which, as in the majority of the Diosmee, are 
copiously furnished with pellucid dots, reservoirs of essential oil, and exhaling probably 
the peculiar odour which characterizes that family. 
ACRADENIA. 
CHAR. ESSENT. Calyx 5-partitus. Petala 5, hypogyna, calyce multo longiora, »stivatione imbricata, 
ovato-elliptica, undique velutina, Stamina 10, hypogyna, petalis sublongiora, alterna paulö bre- 
viora; filamenta libera, subulata, glabra; anthere introrsæ glabrae, biloculares, rimá longitudinali 
dehiscentes, apice inappendiculate. Ovaria 5, gynophoro disciformi margine sinuato insidentia, 
1-locularia, villosissima ; singulo apice glandulà majusculä sessili instructo. Ovula in loculis gemina, 
suture ventrali collateraliter inserta, pendula. Styli in unicum glabrum coaliti. Stigma subcapitel- 
latum. Capsula 5- (vel abortu 1-3-) cocoa ; cocci subquadrati, compressiusculi, glabrati, apice trun- 
cati et extüs brevé cornuti, coriacei, transversim rugosi ; endocarpio haud secedente. Semina ...... ? 
Frutex fasmanicus, ramosissimus ; foliis oppositis exstipulatis, petiolatis, 3-foliatis; foliolis coriaceis, lan- 
er; serratis, suprà tuberculatis ; pedunculis terminalibus, trichotomè cymosis, multifloris ; floribus 
albis. 
ACRADENIA FRANKLINLE. Zieria Franklinie, Milligan, MSS. 
Frutez ramosissimus, floribus ramulisque junioribus exceptis, glaberrimus. Rami teretes, oppositi vel 
subverticillati, cortice lzevi vel subrugoso tecti. Folia opposita, exstipulata, breve petiolata, trifoliata. 
Petioli vix semipollicares, suprà canaliculati, subtèr convexi. Foliola 2-uncialia, coriacea, discolora, 
lanceolata vel obovato-lanceolata, margine revoluta, versus apicem obtusum serrulata, basi attenuata 
"t suprà glanduloso-tuberculata atro-viridia, subter pallidiora lævissima vel glandulis minüs 
prominentibus parcé conspersa, undique nitida; nervo medio valido utrinque prominente, venulis 
